Since my teen years I was interested in martial arts.
At the School of Visual Arts in New York you can get your degree in Net art which is really a fantastic way of thinking of theater in new ways.
Technology is a gift of God. After the gift of life it is perhaps the greatest of God's gifts. It is the mother of civilizations of arts and of sciences.
I think young writers should get other degrees first social sciences arts degrees or even business degrees. What you learn is research skills a necessity because a lot of writing is about trying to find information.
Some go on to trade schools or get further training for jobs they are interested in. Some go into the arts some are craftsmen some take a little time out to travel and some start their own businesses. But our graduates find and work at what they want to do.
The essays in The Great Taos Bank Robbery were my project to win a Master of Arts degree in English when I quit being a newspaper editor and went back to college.
It is easier for women to succeed in business the arts and politics in America than in Europe.
My personal advice is to go to school first and get a liberal arts education and then if you want to pursue acting go to graduate school.
Movies are a complicated collision of literature theatre music and all the visual arts.
One of the things that's great about New York is that it is not a one-industry town. It has education academia the service industry arts publishing theater politics fashion finance as well as movie-making.